One of the best options to combine sightseeing and beach holidays are cruises ... on the Red and Mediterranean seas. These two seas were water cradles for the conception and development of civilizations of a huge part of humanity. During such a cruise, you can see the beautiful, mysterious countries in which people (and maybe someone else) left monuments that are amazing by beautiful and impressive cities, temples and objects of everyday life of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, learn about religions, philosophical currents, visit pilgrim shrines - that's the historical period you can embrace on such a journey.

In addition, page us that you can visit during the cruise, nature endowed the beautiful flora, fauna, landscape and, of course, they wash some of the most tender and beautiful seas. You can spend a day or several in the open sea, on drift, to swallow in full and get an extraordinary impression of unity with the water element, when you can not even see the shore around.

Itinerary as an expert on Egypt and Turkey, I suggest starting from Egypt :)

And now I will list the countries and regions that can be seen on such a cruise, in the order that I think is optimal along the route: Sharm el-Sheikh, Sohn (Egypt); Eilat (Israel); Aqaba, Petra (Jordan); Limassol (Cyprus); Antalya, Turkey); Rhodes, Heraklion (Greece); Kotor (Montenegro); Venice (Italy).

If you wish, you can select several countries or one country with several regions, and if there is a desire and opportunity then add.